Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is free to seek re-election in 2019 and nobody can stop him from doing so.
Obasanjo noted this while reacting to an online report quoting him as saying that he had warned President Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.
The report was credited to him through his former Chief Press Secretary, Alex Nwokedi, in an on-line publication, Post Nigeria, dated September 3, 2016.
But Obasanjo has described the report as “completely false and destructive by those behind it.”
The former President, in a statement issued by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta on Sunday, said:
“My belief is that democracy allows for anybody including President Buhari for that matter to contest any election and it is the prerogative rights of Nigerians to vote or not to vote for them.
“I have not communicated with Alex in the last three years, so how could a story be credited to me when I did not authorise such or communicated with him in the last three years?”
Obasanjo said he could not even stop any of his children not to seek elective post, because that was part of the freedom of democracy.
He continued, “I condemn in the highest manner the story and those behind it. And for those behind it, they are simply enemies of democracy and freedom of expression.”
He assured Nigerians that with patience, the current democratic experience would bring relief to the masses.
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